HARDY and Lainey Wilson leading won the CMT Music Award for Best Collaborative Video of the Year! The two won for their thought-provoking  “wait in the truck” collaboration.

“It’s so hard not to cuss,” HARDY quipped when he accepted the trophy. “This is incredible. I remember the day that Jordan Schmidt, who I wrote the song with, sent me back the demo for the song. And I was so inspired that I wrote the entire script if you will, for the music video, because I knew how powerful the song would be. I just gotta say thank you to Lainey, for working so hard.”

“I just gotta say, I’m so proud to be a small part of that song,” Wilson added. “When I heard the song, I tell you, I felt like this was an opportunity for people who have been through this to feel like they’re not alone, and it’s an opportunity for people who have been doing this — don’t even get me started. I just want to say thank you so much to HARDY. I love you buddy.”

“wait in the truck” is from HARDY’s latest the mockingbird & The Crow album. The Mississippi native wrote the song with Schmidt,  Renee Blair and Hunter Phelps.

“There was a guy that made a really big pass at Caleigh at a Halloween party,” HARDY previously recalled to Everything Nash and other outlets at a recent media event. “She told him she was happily [dating] at that time. The guy was pretty persistent. I was actually in Atlanta playing a show, but she told me about it and I got really fired up, and I made a comment about waiting the truck. Like,  I wish I knew where he lived so I could tell Caleigh to wait in the truck.”

As soon as he finished “wait in the truck,” HARDY knew he wanted it to be a duet, and he knew that he wanted Wilson.

“Some names got passed around and talked about, on the business side of things,” HARDY says. “But Lainey — and this might not sound the right — but she is that person. She is a country girl, and her voice is so authentic. And so when she sings that, and when she shares that lyric, I believe every single word of that. And I knew that, before I even asked her if she wanted to be a part of it. I knew that Lainey would be the one that everybody would believe. And when you believe it, you’re convicted. And her voice, it was always gonna be heard. She said yes, and we haven’t looked back since then. It’s been awesome.”